Bug#854046: dh-make-perl: Incorrect dependencies created from List::Util

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:57:36 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > dh-make-perl creates this weird dependency line if there is
> > a dependency on List::Util:
> >  libperl5.24:amd64 (>= 1.45) | libscalar-list-utils-perl (>= 1.45) | perl-base (>= 1.45)
> 
> This should read either something like
>  libscalar-list-utils-perl (>= 1.45) | perl-base (>= 5.25.1)

> In particular, libperl5.xx is always wrong and should be transformed to
> 'perl' or 'perl-base' instead, with some version mangling as well.
> 
> Looks like Debian::Control::FromCPAN::find_debs_for_modules() needs to
> be smarter about newer versions of core modules. Currently it just sees
> that it's not in core for the current Perl, and goes ahead to look for
> it in the package file lists, without giving any special handling to
> the src:perl packages.

In fact it does, but it only knows about 'perl', 'perl-base', and
'perl-modules*' but not about libperl*. At a naïve first glance,
adding libperl* everywhere where perl-modules* occurs might be a good
step forward.


Cheers,
gregor

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